Nintendo's official UK store has opened pre-orders for Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer, and is offering a selection of bundle options related to the game.
The game on its own is up for pre-order at £34.99 and comes with a special 3DS Kit, which includes:
- A universal system case which holds New Nintendo 3DS XL, New Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo 3DS XL, Nintendo 3DS or Nintendo 2DS.
- 3 styluses: 2 styluses for the New Nintendo 3DS XL system and 1 large stylus which works with any Nintendo 3DS system.
- Micro-fibre cleaning cloth to keep screens clean from dust and smudges.
- Stores up to 12 3DS, DS Game Cards and/or Animal Crossing amiibo Cards and protects game cards from dust and scratches.
For those of you who don't own a New Nintendo 3DS system, there's the game and NFC Reader / Writer bundle, which also includes the 3DS Kit outlined above but throws in the new accessory which allows older versions of the 3DS hardware to indulge in all manner of NFC-related goodness. This bundle retails for £39.99 - just £5 more than the standard game, amazingly. The NFC Reader / Writer costs £17.99 on its own, so that's quite a saving.
Meanwhile, those all-important packs of NFC cards are available for £3.49. Each one contains 3 different cards, all randomly selected.
But there's more! The special New Nintendo 3DS XL Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer pack contains a limited edition console, a digital copy of the game, the 3DS Kit (outlined above) and a special amiibo album for storing your NFC cards in. It costs £209.99. There's also a standard New Nintendo 3DS console bundle available for £179.99, with a white edition of the system complete with Animal Crossing-themed cover plates. Yum!
Nintendo is also offering standard New Nintendo 3DS consoles with various accessories and cover plates for £197.99, which you can see here.
Finally, there's the 2DS bundle, which includes a 2DS console, the NFC Reader / Writer accessory with a copy of the game, a pack of NFC cards, the 3DS Kit and the amiibo album. Phew! That little lot will set you back £149.99.
Helpfully, Nintendo has even provided a guide which tells you exactly what you need to play the game, depending on what 3DS system you currently own.
It's worth noting that retailers GAME and Amazon have also gone live with their own bundle options. The game launches in the UK on October 2nd.
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What a plethora of options!
I'm gonna try the game, with a couple of amiibo card packs. I got absolutely hooked into ACNL, and see what this has to offer.
Just preordered the game and my first pack of cards. It's a shame we don't get a new full blown Animal Crossing game but I'm curious to see how this one idea can work in the long term.
"Meanwhile, those all-important packs of NFC cards are available for £3.49. Each one contains 3 different cards, all randomly selected."
That's not strictly true, one of the three will be a special card!
"Series 1 Animal Crossing amiibo cards Pack contains three Animal Crossing amiibo cards. Out of these three, one card will always be a special amiibo card. In Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer this means it features a character whose house you won’t be able to build without using its amiibo card."
300Yen=£3.49? These exchange rates get worse by the day...
At least it is better than the £20 Argos was saying at one point.
I still have a feeling USA is going to be the place to get these from (card distribution makes more sense for completing the series)
I'm gonna be getting this digitally I think 😀 animal crossing is better digital! But I'm drooling over the XL design and those AC cover plates but I can't buy any more 3DS systems 😔 got too many!
I'm going to wait for reviews on this, even though I'm a huge AC fanatic. It doesn't seem like a complete experience to me and yet they're trying to charge full retail price for it.
Lots of great bundles on there. Just pre-ordered my copy for my brother on there seeing as he needs a new case for his New 3ds anyway.
Certainly tempted by those cards too at those prices, far more reasonable than Amazon's current pricing.
Got that XL pre-ordered! I originally had one at game but the official store is too good of an offer to miss! Very hyped for this game! At least 3.50 is a better price than the 5.50 we've been seeing over the internet! I just hope I can see these in store and pick these up if I have loose change in my pocket!
Still waiting on if this is coming westward....I've been looking at getting the new 3ds xl and I might do it for this special edition.
US $6 for 6 cards(£3,85). UK £3.49 for 3 cards. Cash grab. Blind packs to start with, then every pack also contains 1 special card, of which there are 17. So if you get 17 packs with all of the special variations, you still only have 51 cards, with 49 non-special cards minimum still to find = 25 more packs minimum because there are only 2 in each pack = £146.58 minimum supposing you have no non-special doubles (unlikely!) and you will inevitably have 25 double specials. Cards are worth £1.16 each so should be more like £116. That's if you're bothering with full set and only buying the packs instead of individual ones you need from resellers. Still makes it very expensive for collectors. A few cards here and there is reasonable, but I'll pass, thanks.
@Sakura Wow your bang on with the cash grab little bit of a shame actually because I wanted to collect them all and now that means I'm going to have a bunch of spare cards and I have no one to trade with so that's kinda bad, still I don't know why we don't get 6 cards rather than 3
Not at all interested in the game, but I want a few of of the cards so I ordered some. There's no way I'm trying to get all the cards though.
Game, two sets of cards and the free kit for me. Shame they didn't send out an e-mail for Project Zero earlier this week.
Why are they New 3DS XL styluses? I ned New 3DS styluses. I've found it near on impossible to get New 3DS styluses, I even resorted to a chinese ebay seller and they sent me ones for the XL. The only place I have found that definitely does them is Nintendo themselves, but they charge £7 for a stylus.
I'm not happy that the album is exclusive to the console bundles as if anyone who already has a New 3DS wants one they have to buy the console over again.
I wish they'd this with the Pokemon Rumble U figures - in card form.
@llamareborn i'm actually surprised to see it wasn't available on it's own! I wouldn't worry too much I expect many retailers to offer it in stores and I think Nintendo themselves will this may be just to shift more copies of the game from their store!
On a side note that green stylus will be pretty nice with the xl as it matches the green bottom! Still I won't be allowed it till November for my birthday
I'd really like to get my hands on that amiibo card album. Here's hoping that they sell it separately at some point.
I cannot wait for this game to come out! I will sell my best games to get this cute awesome game!! fan girls
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